I'm very curious. I'm sure we've all been there. We've dealt with doctors from all spectrum and mindsets. Most are very good at their jobs and have sound ideas!
But sometimes docs just say and do the craziest things
My example: at my last LTC facility I had one doctor seriously outright refuse/fight giving and prescribing pain meds (for patients who really, really needed it/were on vents/dying) because he honestly believed that these residents who had been stuck in a bed for years were going to get better and go out to buy/smoke crack cocaine.
According to him "prescribing narcotics leads to methadone and crack usage." These poor residents have been here for years taking the same medications and pain meds for years...just WHAT?
Ran upstairs from the ER to ICU for an arrest. There was a very young hot dog cardiologist spouting orders. The ER doc stood by the door & watched the antics. I kept saying we had a shockable rhythm but she continued floundering. I picked up the paddles & told her he was shockable did she want me to defib. She grabbed them & said, "Stand back, I've got this". I am sure we have all seen young hot dogs out to save the world but this one had a matching ego. She was on the bed, up against this guy. Several of us tried to tell her but she wouldn't listen. It was hysterical. When she hit the floor, the ER doc stepped in & actually saved the guy while she cussed the rest of us out!!!
Ran upstairs from the ER to ICU for an arrest. There was a very young hot dog cardiologist spouting orders. The ER doc stood by the door & watched the antics. I kept saying we had a shockable rhythm but she continued floundering. I picked up the paddles & told her he was shockable did she want me to defib. She grabbed them & said, "Stand back, I've got this". I am sure we have all seen young hot dogs out to save the world but this one had a matching ego. She was on the bed, up against this guy. Several of us tried to tell her but she wouldn't listen. It was hysterical. When she hit the floor, the ER doc stepped in & actually saved the guy while she cussed the rest of us out!!!
They put this one on one of the TV medical shows. It would be hilarious. Why don't we make our own show. We could do it.
I like this thread....but I wonder if docs make threads about dumbest things nurses have said to them...let's not be naive here there are plenty of not so bright peeps in any profession...
I like this thread....but I wonder if docs make threads about dumbest things nurses have said to them...let's not be naive here there are plenty of not so bright peeps in any profession...
I'm sure they do. My step daughter is in residency right now. Some of her stories about nursing are embarassing to hear.
I like this thread....but I wonder if docs make threads about dumbest things nurses have said to them...let's not be naive here there are plenty of not so bright peeps in any profession...
I think the intent of the thread was humor, so maybe it should have called most humorous or funniest things doctors did rather than dumbest with its pejorative connotation. Yes I can recall a nurse who gave a lady partsl supp to a woman with no lady parts (she had cancer and it was sewn over). Yes this hotshot nurse was bound and determined to follow the doctor's order even if it didn't make sense. Rather than charting that she was not able to give it, she "looked for some kind of hole down there until I found an indentation on the thigh and I shoved it in there." When I said that wasn't appropriate and it was not the right route anyway, she became very angry and said "well the doctor ordered it so I had to put it somewhere." I kid you not. I could not make this stuff up if I tried. Hope your daughter enjoys this story. It is funny but also kind of OMG sad to think that this twit has a license to practice on poor innocent people. And the patient was 101 years old and still mentally with it (more so than the nurse) and the nurse apparently spent quite some time looking "for somewhere to shove the damn thing in" and caused unneeded stress to this poor elderly lady. The lady was so sweet and lovely. I was angry when I heard about this because she did not deserve to be treated this way at that age and stage of her life. All I can say is I do believe in divine justice and maybe one day the nurse will have someone treat her the same way, looking for an orifice she doesn't have. Too bad she has a mouth for an orifice. Too bad she managed to get a nursing license. Oh yes, and the nurse was quite vocal in blaming the physician for "ordering the bloody thing and wasting my time while I had to look for a hole."
I laughed harder than I should at the popcorn thing. Lol!!!!
Yes well it was pretty hilarious. We were laughing when we were offered this junk. So when the CNA turned MD commented on how much money he/she spent on a gourmet lunch for the nurses, I could not help but think of this. Popcorn is not really a high ticket food item. That person sounds like he/she was embittered working under nurses so went to medical school in an "I will show them" mentality and will do anything to run down nurses. It is too bad he/she is so angry, because it was meant to be a light hearted, funny thread, something to bring humor to us. Back to nurses day/week/whatever, I usually try to stay away from work at that time. I don't want to have to be resuscitated from choking on whatever choking risk food they supply or to take my blood sugar and blood cholesterol levels to previously unheard of heights from management's gourmet food treats.
Yes well it was pretty hilarious. We were laughing when we were offered this junk. So when the CNA turned MD commented on how much money he/she spent on a gourmet lunch for the nurses, I could not help but think of this.
Sounds like I really got to ya with that anger. I was actually already set on medical school when I started working as a CNA. Seemed like a good job with decent pay for a college student, plus worked at the place my grandmother lived so got to spend time with her. That and med schools love it. Didn't mind working for RN's most of them I am still friends with.
Anyways the EMR went down a month or two ago where I work. Had to go back to paper charting when one of the nurses grabbed me for an order one of the interns wrote. 1 L water, apparently the RN went up to him and they told the RN that tap water should just be fine.
I'm just glad that medicine is a team sport. I get to run my suggestions by some pretty sharp docs. Most times I get what I ask. Other times they explain why they'd rather do something else and I learn. In return, I catch an occasional misstep they might make.
Sounds like I really got to ya with that anger. I was actually already set on medical school when I started working as a CNA. Seemed like a good job with decent pay for a college student, plus worked at the place my grandmother lived so got to spend time with her. That and med schools love it. Didn't mind working for RN's most of them I am still friends with.
Anyways the EMR went down a month or two ago where I work. Had to go back to paper charting when one of the nurses grabbed me for an order one of the interns wrote. 1 L water, apparently the RN went up to him and they told the RN that tap water should just be fine.
Yeah, the popcorn was a pretty big treat, real gourmet treat. Well, maybe in the world of the management, popcorn is a gourmet treat. Not in my world. We just thought it was a big joke. I wouldn't touch it. Popcorn sticks in my throat and makes me choke. Maybe that is what the management wanted. Just kill us all off. No, wait a minute, who would do the work then? Well, I suppose they could give us all a litre of tap water to go with the popcorn. There you go, gourmet treats for nursing week -- popcorn and tap water.
Yeah, the popcorn was a pretty big treat, real gourmet treat. Well, maybe in the world of the management, popcorn is a gourmet treat. Not in my world. We just thought it was a big joke. I wouldn't touch it. Popcorn sticks in my throat and makes me choke. Maybe that is what the management wanted. Just kill us all off. No, wait a minute, who would do the work then? Well, I suppose they could give us all a litre of tap water to go with the popcorn. There you go, gourmet treats for nursing week -- popcorn and tap water.
So what do you actually expect from nursing week? What type of gifts do you expect? Real question.
I take back that many of the nurses complained about what we bought for nurses week, it was a select few. What got me so mad is that I am involved in 0 aspects of the nursing staff. I don't hire them, fire them, or pay them. I am merely an employed worker (with a small percentage of my pay based on what I bill) much like the nurses, techs, and clerks that I work with. I am not the nurses "boss" but I am the leader of the team when it comes down to patient care. Even though I am not the boss, nor in charge of their paycheck I still find that a good RN (same goes for the other ER staff) makes my job a ton easier. So it is not like I wrote off the expense of nurses week on the company. It was straight out of my paycheck. To complain about that is pretty ridiculous.
And so I contribute to the actual thread. One from my intern year.
Fresh out of medical school about a week into residency and had a pretty sick septic patient that I really wasn't sure how to take care of yet. Pretty sure the nurses liked to screw with the new interns. They kept yelling "what should we do doc?". I asked them to put in a foley not knowing what to do' one patted me on the back and asked "how about we start with some fluids first?"
So what do you actually expect from nursing week? What type of gifts do you expect? Real question.
I take back that many of the nurses complained about what we bought for nurses week, it was a select few. What got me so mad is that I am involved in 0 aspects of the nursing staff. I don't hire them, fire them, or pay them. I am merely an employed worker (with a small percentage of my pay based on what I bill) much like the nurses, techs, and clerks that I work with. I am not the nurses "boss" but I am the leader of the team when it comes down to patient care. Even though I am not the boss, nor in charge of their paycheck I still find that a good RN (same goes for the other ER staff) makes my job a ton easier. So it is not like I wrote off the expense of nurses week on the company. It was straight out of my paycheck. To complain about that is pretty ridiculous.
I get it. You felt ripped off by nurses' week. It is a lesson learned for you to decline from contributing in the future. As to what do I expect from nurses' week. Nothing. I think the whole thing is a total joke. It is just paying lip service to the nurses. It is just a total artifice. It is meaningless and I wish they would just abolish it. It has obviously led to bad feelings on your part, feeling that you had to participate by contributing and then resenting having done so. I am in total agreement with you. I was not criticizing you about this issue. Not at all. You will have to go somewhere else if you want to pick a fight on this one. I was just sharing what my experience of nurses' week had been, and some other posters thought it was pretty funny. The staff at the facility where it happened got a good laugh out of it too. I can assure that no one in that facility made a personal contribution. The popcorn was a write off for the company. And it doesn't really matter who paid for it anyway. It was stupid and insulting and we all made it a positive by laughing at it and at the director who thought it was a treat. Anyway I do believe she thinks popcorn is a gourmet treat because when she left the facility she asked for popcorn for her going away party. Seems she has a thing for popcorn. So in her mind she was giving them all a big treat.
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Ran upstairs from the ER to ICU for an arrest. There was a very young hot dog cardiologist spouting orders. The ER doc stood by the door & watched the antics. I kept saying we had a shockable rhythm but she continued floundering. I picked up the paddles & told her he was shockable did she want me to defib. She grabbed them & said, "Stand back, I've got this". I am sure we have all seen young hot dogs out to save the world but this one had a matching ego. She was on the bed, up against this guy. Several of us tried to tell her but she wouldn't listen. It was hysterical. When she hit the floor, the ER doc stepped in & actually saved the guy while she cussed the rest of us out!!!